GoRemote.io, ProductHunt.com and Transparency

But why?

Working remotely (not necessarily from home!) is brilliant for lots of people. Having left my job at the end of June I needed to find a new job, and I set myself the goal of finding a great remote job with people I could learn from, where I could make a difference.

Trawling multiple sites hourly got tiring, so I built something to help!

So, what happened?

It didn't go as spectacularly as levels.io (he's awesome!) launch of RemoteOk on ProductHunt, but it did do well.

MailChimp

I had hoped I would be able to reach more people with this mailing list but perhaps 'daily' is too often and puts people off?

This is definitely something I want to be looking into more in future.

What did I learn?

You can get thousands of viewers to your site, with a few days of work - MVP all the way

Launch on a week day

Build a Twitter/ProductHunt following before launch

Make sure it's pretty

Communicate

Now what?

I'd like to add more job sources then have GoRemote.io become more than a remote job aggregator and to feature blog posts on how best to work remotely, how to find jobs, how to find clients if you freelance and more. Rodolphe Dutel is doing a great job in this space with Remotive.

Working from home is so good, for so many people - I want to spread the word to as many people as I can.